Today's public transport network, especially the tram network, in the city of Zurich is mainly geared towards the city centre. In the future, Oerlikon and Altstetten will become more important as other city centres. An outer ring system is to connect the city centres of Oerlikon and Altstetten and include Stettbach station in the northeast and Enge station in the southwest. This will allow passengers to get to their quarters quickly from the stations on the outskirts of the city. This ring system also serves to provide good access to Binz, ETH Hönggerberg and Schwamendingen as well as – no less important – to relieve the city centre.

Already today, different means of transport can be combined during the journey. Multimodal mobility hubs should further promote this switch and also take into account bicycles, e-bikes, scooters, e-scooters, car sharing or the footpath.

In districts or periods when fewer people are on the road and no main axes lead through them, digital services and "Mobility as a Service" (MaaS) are to be increasingly used as options for public transport development.

The existing tram line between Oerlikon – Milchbuck – Rigiblick cable car – University area Zentrum – Bellevue / Stadelhofen is to be upgraded to an eastern tangent. Linked to the new tram tangents in the west, this would create an efficient tram service. This would offer direct connections to the university areas. VBZ would like to link the growing Balgrist-Lengg hospital district with good connections to the S-Bahn at Stadelhofen, as well as to the two western tram tangents. Final stops are to be placed where they are most useful. To this end, lines are to be extended and better connections to the S-Bahn are to be created, for example.

Where bottlenecks exist today, they must be eliminated in the future with appropriate measures. This is in order to continue to offer reliable public transport. Thanks to a good connection of the new tangential connections with the urban and regional public transport network, new reliable connections with short travel times are also to be created in the surrounding area.